Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

If you're female, and you want to express your femininity, you're actually demonized in the 'Free To Be... You And Me' generation.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'